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Trion Worlds teams up with Shanda to take Rift online game to China

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 9, 2012
2 min

Chasing World of Warcraft in its biggest market, Trion Worlds is announcing today that it will launch its Rift online fantasy role-playing game in...

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Lucasfilm teams with social media startups to create giant charity run

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 9, 2012
1 min

How’s this for a mega geek fest? Lucasfilm is teaming up with three social media startups to create the Course of the Force, a...

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Bethesda reveals Skyrim dragon mounts, house-building, Kinect shouts, and more!

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 9, 2012
1 min

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOUCDIP9uV0] Update: Swapped in a better version of the video. Todd Howard, game director at Bethesda Game Studios, gave the opening keynote at the...

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Help fund Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game, go bowling with them (updated)

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 9, 2012
2 min

Update: Double Fine Adventure collects over $680,000 within first day As of 9 a.m. PST, more than 16,000 backers had pledged a total of...

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Skyrim creator Todd Howard shares secrets of video game design

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 9, 2012
3 min

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim co-creator Todd Howard shared the secrets of video game design at the opening keynote of the annual DICE Summit...

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Gameloft Live enters the social mobile fray on Android, coming to iOS soon

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 8, 2012
2 min

Global games publisher Gameloft announced today its new gaming hub service, Gameloft Live. In a move that should surprise no one, the company has...

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Nexon invades Zynga’s turf with plan to launch Kart Rider on Facebook

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 8, 2012
1 min

Nexon and Zynga are dueling to be the darlings of the new game industry. Nexon got big with free-to-play online games that you download...

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Star Wars: The Old Republic isn’t hurting World of Warcraft as much as you may think

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 8, 2012
2 min

To what extent has Electronic Arts’ Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) been keeping users away from Activision Blizzard’s cash cow World of Warcraft...